Quick Take Association of African Ancestry with Electrocardiographic Voltage and Concentric Left Ventricular Hypertrophy The Dallas Heart Study

Quick Take: Association of African Ancestry with Electrocardiographic Voltage and Concentric Left Ventricular Hypertrophy: The Dallas Heart Study

01:01 EST 28 Nov 2018 | 2 Minute Medicine

Black individuals have a higher proportion of increased electrocardiographic voltage and concentric left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH), as compared to white individuals. However, self-identified individuals in the United States have both African and European ancestry. In this probability-based cohort study with purposeful oversampling of self-identified black individuals in the Dallas County, Texas, investigators aimed to determine […]

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